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 ## II. Philosophical Words and Phrases
 
-A vocabulary list drawn from E.D. Hirsch Jr.’s *Cultural Literacy* with additions highlighted in Dipert’s original.
+A vocabulary list drawn from E.D. Hirsch Jr.’s *Cultural Literacy* with additions I found useful to emphasize.
 
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 ## IV. A Note on the Very Idea of a Philosophical Canon
 
-Dipert’s mini-canon tips its hat to Harold Bloom’s *The Western Canon* and to E.D. Hirsch Jr.’s crusade for cultural literacy, but applies the logic to philosophy. That raises perennial debates: Do canons over-celebrate dead Western men? How do we fold in non-Western traditions? Does “classicizing” our reading harden culture or help us think?
+This little canon tips its hat to Harold Bloom’s *The Western Canon* and to E.D. Hirsch Jr.’s arguments for cultural literacy, but applies the logic to philosophy. That raises perennial debates: Do canons over-celebrate dead Western men? How do we fold in non-Western traditions? Does “classicizing” our reading harden culture or help us think?
 
 With philosophy the stakes shift. The aim is not merely knowing arguments but cultivating wisdom—an ability to judge what is true or valuable. Reading mountains of philosophy, on its own, is neither necessary nor sufficient. It helps only when paired with conceptual discipline, logical skill, interpretive charity, emotional maturity, worldly experience, methodological self-awareness, tolerance for unpopular ideas, and, most of all, a spark of wonder.
 
-Reciting or memorizing canonical works without that spark is like memorizing music while remaining tone-deaf. Philosophy demands internal motivation and good taste for truth. Dipert’s selections are guideposts, not guarantees: prompts to explore the conversations that built the discipline and invitations to wrestle with them firsthand.
+Reciting or memorizing canonical works without that spark is like memorizing music while remaining tone-deaf. Philosophy demands internal motivation and good taste for truth. The selections above are guideposts rather than guarantees: prompts to explore the conversations that built the discipline and invitations to wrestle with them firsthand.